Mark Cleaveland
@jmcleaveland.bsky.social
Psychology and assorted tesserae
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1/ The US Government has quietly removed a memorial to Black soldiers who died in World War II from the Netherlands American Cemetery in Margraten, South Limburg. The move follows a complaint from the right-wing Heritage Foundation to the American Battle Monuments Commission. ⬇️
November 9, 2025 at 9:23 AM
1/ The US Government has quietly removed a memorial to Black soldiers who died in World War II from the Netherlands American Cemetery in Margraten, South Limburg. The move follows a complaint from the right-wing Heritage Foundation to the American Battle Monuments Commission. ⬇️
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Good work being done by PSA and the Impact Project to raise awareness of the threats being directed at public servants.
Good work being done by PSA and the Impact Project to raise awareness of the threats being directed at public servants.
Threats to Public Servants Dashboard - The Impact Project
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November 4, 2025 at 4:24 PM
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Good work being done by PSA and the Impact Project to raise awareness of the threats being directed at public servants.
Good work being done by PSA and the Impact Project to raise awareness of the threats being directed at public servants.
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This was a fantastic read. Nice surprise that it had guest-star @carlbergstrom.com who I guess still has not see the lyrebird :-)
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What Isn’t Intelligence? | Los Angeles Review of Books
Patrick House is inspired by Blaise Agüera y Arcas’s “What Is Intelligence?” to think about what might constitute the difference between artificial and natural intelligence.
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October 25, 2025 at 12:12 PM
This was a fantastic read. Nice surprise that it had guest-star @carlbergstrom.com who I guess still has not see the lyrebird :-)
lareviewofbooks.org/article/what...
lareviewofbooks.org/article/what...
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"If we cannot convey our findings and theories in accessible ways, we risk validating the misleading assumption that academia is merely an elitist silo that has little to do with the everyday realities of average Americans." Professor Dara Greenwood in Psychology Today.
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Why Scholars Should Take Their Show On the Road
To ensure that informed and nuanced perspectives are part of public dialogue, academics need to hone their persuasive communication skills.
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October 13, 2025 at 2:06 PM
"If we cannot convey our findings and theories in accessible ways, we risk validating the misleading assumption that academia is merely an elitist silo that has little to do with the everyday realities of average Americans." Professor Dara Greenwood in Psychology Today.
https://bit.ly/3W370Pe
https://bit.ly/3W370Pe
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In our Office Hours video, we spoke to Lori Alison Newman, Associate Professor of Psychological Science, who talked about the importance of astrocytes.
October 11, 2025 at 1:01 PM
In our Office Hours video, we spoke to Lori Alison Newman, Associate Professor of Psychological Science, who talked about the importance of astrocytes.
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Remember when you first learned about genetics at school? All those fascinating examples of human traits that are each apparently determined by just a single gene? Time to check in on some of your favourites to see how they’re doing. 🧬🧵🧪 1/n
May 2, 2025 at 2:50 PM
Remember when you first learned about genetics at school? All those fascinating examples of human traits that are each apparently determined by just a single gene? Time to check in on some of your favourites to see how they’re doing. 🧬🧵🧪 1/n
Great job by my student Alden Ormont (‘27) presenting research at the Eastern Psychological Association! Vassar PsycSci also has research being presented from Prof Clifton’s and Prof Greenwood’s labs. @vassar.bsky.social
March 8, 2025 at 3:37 PM
Great job by my student Alden Ormont (‘27) presenting research at the Eastern Psychological Association! Vassar PsycSci also has research being presented from Prof Clifton’s and Prof Greenwood’s labs. @vassar.bsky.social
#standupforscience Attended the event in NYC with colleague and students from Vassar College. Cancer treatments? Has your kid ever had strep? Safer vehicles for driving? Science can help.
March 8, 2025 at 2:05 PM
#standupforscience Attended the event in NYC with colleague and students from Vassar College. Cancer treatments? Has your kid ever had strep? Safer vehicles for driving? Science can help.
Much wisdom shared at the Psychological Science career alumni event on Saturday! 👏👏Special thanks to the alumni who could come and share their on-going journeys: Lily Conroy ‘23, Wendy Gonzalez ‘03, Matt Grossman ‘10, Leesh Menard ‘18, Tomomi Uetani ‘00, and Joanna Weill ‘09.
@vassar.bsky.social
@vassar.bsky.social
February 23, 2025 at 6:05 PM
Much wisdom shared at the Psychological Science career alumni event on Saturday! 👏👏Special thanks to the alumni who could come and share their on-going journeys: Lily Conroy ‘23, Wendy Gonzalez ‘03, Matt Grossman ‘10, Leesh Menard ‘18, Tomomi Uetani ‘00, and Joanna Weill ‘09.
@vassar.bsky.social
@vassar.bsky.social
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"I am on a night train from Kyiv, bound for Zaporizhzhia, a city in the southeast of Ukraine which is about twenty miles from the front... As I get ready to go to sleep, I find myself thinking that Americans are also speeding towards a line."
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Crossing a line
Borders between one kind of life and another
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February 13, 2025 at 4:38 PM
"I am on a night train from Kyiv, bound for Zaporizhzhia, a city in the southeast of Ukraine which is about twenty miles from the front... As I get ready to go to sleep, I find myself thinking that Americans are also speeding towards a line."
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snyder.substack.com/p/crossing-a...
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Very cool.
The "carpentered corner" story for the Müller-Lyer illusion is probably bullshit.
The "carpentered corner" story for the Müller-Lyer illusion is probably bullshit.
Does the culture you grow up in shape the way you see the world? In a new Psych Review paper, @chazfirestone.bsky.social & I tackle this centuries-old question using the Müller-Lyer illusion as a case study. Come think through one of history's mysteries with us🧵(1/13):
January 27, 2025 at 12:58 AM
Very cool.
The "carpentered corner" story for the Müller-Lyer illusion is probably bullshit.
The "carpentered corner" story for the Müller-Lyer illusion is probably bullshit.